Baby Boy!
Shneur and Devorah Leah (nee Gitlin) Hirsch (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights Carjacker Indicted; Faces 25 Years
A 29-year-old Queens man has been indicted by Brooklyn’s D.A. for an armed carjacking that he allegedly committed on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights this summer.
Picture of the Day: Chabad in Uman
Among the tens of thousands of Jews who made the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine to spend Rosh Hashanah near the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was a group of Lubavitcher Chassidim. A ‘Chabad House’ with a Nusach Ari minyan was set up for their convenience.
Chabad Lawsuit Reinstated Against CT Town
A federal appeals court has reinstated a Chabad rabbi’s lawsuit accusing the Litchfield Historic District Commission of religious discrimination when it rejected plans for a synagogue in 2007.
New Engagement!
Yitzy Schoenberg (Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Adaya Heller (Tzfas, Israel)
Video: President Wishes ‘Shanah Tovah’
President Barrack Obama wishes all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah a happy and healthy new year.
Laws and Customs: Rosh Hashanah and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Rosh Hashanah and the Ten Days of Teshuva, Blowing Shofar and Tzom Gedalia for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Update: Guide from Crown Heights Badatz Added.
Miami Mayor Meets with Community Leaders
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Director of The Miami-Dade Police Dept. J.D. Patterson met with some of South Florida’s leading rabbis and community leaders yesterday to discuss security plans for the various Jewish communities throughout the south Florida county over the High Holidays.
Baby Girl!
Shmuely and Devorah (nee DeVries) Levitin (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Ariel and Sarah (nee Naparstek) Hess (Los Angeles, CA)
Chabad of South Broward Sails Into the New Year
On Sunday night, 26 Elul, September 21, the 33rd Dinner of Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch and Chabad of South Broward, FL, Award Ceremony took place on a magnificent boat, “The Catalina,” in what was by far the most exciting and memorable Dinner in the institution’s 34 year history.
Murderers of Three Israeli Teens Killed by IDF
The two wanted Palestinians who have been suspected of kidnapping and murdering three Jewish teenagers in Gush Etzion earlier this summer, were shot and killed by the IDF in an exchange of fire on Tuesday morning.
Monsey Community Grows with Opening of New Mesivta
Marking the communities continued growth, a new Mesivta opened this year in Monsey and they are already having a great year. The new Mesivta joins the existing six Shuls and two successful boy’s and girl’s schools.
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Shmaya and Rochi (nee Silver) Galperin (Holmdel, NJ)
New Shluchim to Massachusetts
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy first opened its doors close to 70 years ago, in a small house on Belmont Avenue in Springfield, MA as the areas first Jewish day school, providing quality secular and Judaic education for children in the Greater Springfield community. Rabbi Lavy Kosofsky and his wife, Mushkie, have relocated to Springfield from New York, to join LYA.
6th Graders Gather at Dawn for Selichos
In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, the entire Oholei Torah sixth grade, along with their Melamdim and principal, gathered early Monday morning, B’hashkoma, to recite Selichos and daven Shacharis together.
